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Efficient recuperative 4-quadrant power supply for superconducting solenoids.
Lumped-Element Dynamic Electro-Thermal model of a superconducting magnet.
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Superconductivity & Cryogenics.
A feasibility study for the small superconducting synchronous machine using 2G HTS tape.
Challenges of high field large bore superconducting “outserts” for research magnets.
Superconducting magnets for NICA project.
Superconductivity record bolstered by magnetic data.
Evaluation of mechanical displacements in superconducting accelerator magnet arrays.
Double-layer rotor magnetic shield performance analysis in high temperature superconducting synchronous generators under short circuit fault conditions.
Analysis of the influence structural defects on the critical current of the HTc superconducting tapes.
Design and optimization of niobium-titanium based superconductive magnet for the magneto resistive heat switch.
Effect of superconductivity on microscale radiative heat transfer.
The influence of cryogenic temperature on characteristics of superconducting maglev systems.
Role of the superconductivity in radiative heat transfer.
Cryogenic system and temperature control of superconducting wigglers with indirect cooling.
Refrigeration sector monitoring
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Superconducting cable for urban electricity
Part of AmpaCity project, the 1km, 10 kV high temperature ceramic-based superconductive cable is the world’s longest and the first to have been integrated into an urban electricity grid in Essen, Germany.
A new cooling technique for superconducting cavities of particle accelerators
A team of researchers is developing a new method to cool the superconducting cavities of particle accelerators, which could make them more compact.
Cryogenics 2019: NICA project aims at studying the state of matter existing shortly after the Big Bang
NICA project for a new superconducting accelerator complex in Russia attracted a lot of interest during IIR Cryogenics conference in Prague, in April 2019.
Always closer to absolute zero
NIST physicists have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature below the so-called “quantum limit.”
World’s most powerful MRI machines push the limits of human imaging
Latest MRI machines, developed in the US and in France and designed to operate under ultra-high magnetic strength thanks to giant superconducting magnets, should notably allow major advances in the understanding of neurological diseases.
Record low temperatures for more reliable quantum computing
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Maryland, USA, have engineered a new type of quantum refrigerator, improving upon the performance of the currently used dilution...
A possible major step in the quest of room-temperature superconductivity
Two researcher teams have just reported experiments indicating that a hydride of lanthanum compressed to 1.7 to 1.85 million bar has a critical temperature of 250–260 K (-23 – -13°C).
Refrigeration, a key player in the fight against cancer
Refrigeration technologies are an essential part of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of several cancers.
Moving a 15m superconductive ring across the United States
Researchers from 26 institutions around the world are planning a new experiment called Muon g-2 that could influence particle physics.
Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
A microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) protocol designed at CEA-I²BM enables high-resolution visualization of amyloid plaques, associated with Alzheimer’s disease, 15-20 years before the first signs of dementia and memory loss appear.
100 years of superconductivity
April 8, 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kammerlingh Onnes. Working in his lab at Leiden University on April 8, 1911, he was experimenting with the electrical...
The superconductor industry global market
The global market for superconductor technologies accounted for USD 1.8 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach USD 5.8 billion by 2022.
IIR Cryogenics 2025 conference: latest advances in cryogenics for quantum computing
A keynote paper on cryogenics for quantum computing reviewed current cooling methods such as dilution refrigeration or cryocoolers, challenges associated with cryogenics for quantum computing, as well as recent...
Cryogenics 2021 highlights: applications of liquid nitrogen
Cryopreservation of biological materials to favour biodiversity and cooling of superconducting cables to allow transmission of electrical energy with zero resistance are key applications of liquid...
LHC accelerating science
The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was steered around the full 27 km of the world's most powerful particle accelerator on September 10, 2008, in Geneva. Beams of protons circulating in opposite directions are to be brought into...
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IIR member news: Linde
Linde Kryotechnik cryogenic company has developed a groundbreaking refrigeration system used to cool extreme temperatures in an experiment to create fusion fuel.
Download the latest technical papers from the IIR Cryogenics Conference
Held on 8-11 April this year, the 15th IIR Cryogenics Conference welcomed over 120 guests from more than 22 countries.
Briefs: Philippe Lebrun is “Engineer of the Year”
Philippe Lebrun, a member of the Management Committee of the IIR and Head of Section A of the IIR (Cryology and Gas Processing), was awarded the "Prix Ingénieur de l'Année 2010" in the "Science" category, by the French magazine Usine...
Member news: Latest news from Air Liquide
Air Liquid inaugurates a low-carbon hydrogen production unit and promotes the development of helium refrigeration.
Obituary: Prof. Vesselin Tassev Kovachev
Prof. Vesselin Tassev Kovachev, past member of IIR Commission A1, passed away on 23 November 2015.
Member news: Ultra-low temperatures. NIST creates a more efficient pulse-tube refrigerator prototype
American researchers have created a prototype pulse-tube refrigerator that significantly reduces the time and energy required to reach temperatures close to absolute zero: an exciting advance for the quantum...
Cryogenics and Low-Temperature Physics: New Horizons and Challenges
This Focus written by Ralf Herzog*, President of the IIR’s Cryophysics, Cryoengineering commission (Commission A1) for the Newsletter of the IIR is the third in a series of presentations of the activities and hot research topics handled by the...
